funky house sceptics, let me draw your attention to this

based on the itunes sample of this i can listen to the "do you mind" sample just kinda arrives and does its thing with no particularly meaningful relationship to the rest of the song, on an execution level it's not as strong as "take care".

I don't think the legacy of uk funky particularly needs defending though - esp. given most people were always and forever wrong about it regardless.

Is the whole thing out there yet? The snippet definitely has more of a low key Naija thing going than a UK funky vibe per se but I can barely hear Wizkid at all.

Weird that Kyla, who no one has heard of, apparently gets a credited feature alongside him.

i've found myself of the position that his part on "work" is essential

this opinion might be even worse than drake vulturing over uk funky

i've had the "ooh a uk funky revival would be amazing, scene burned out too soon" conversation so many times in the past half decade but it's not as if people haven't been constantly trying! just that the ineffable magic hasn't been there (listening to the vocal tunes off the new roska and lil silva eps now and, like, they're alright i guess, always nice to hear nyah, as it was on that trc track last year, but none of these are "do you mind" or "frontline" level and everyone knows it)

aside from "one dance" being the usual drizzly dreck that doesn't even make especially good use of its source material (that slight slowing down of the tempo is going to drive me absolutely insane if this song becomes somewhat ubiquitous) it feels weird in the same way that american indie anglophilia always felt slightly creepy, drake's approach to the uk and nigeria is appropriative not just in the social justice way but in the usual clumsy middle-class grasping for a cool that isn't yours and wasn't yours ever, and oddly out of step with where the uk scene's nostalgia is actually at right now (ukg)

and yes reducing wizkid to a garnish exemplifies this even more but it's all part and parcel of the same thing

imma need j0rdan to justify that horrible "work" opinion before anything else though. his verse is SUCH a buzzkill and it goes on for so long

some funky-ish bits that dj q has been playing sound great in context but don't really stand up on their own, though i guess that was always the case for a good part of funky and stuff q plays. but i like this one:

https://soundcloud.com/complex-uk/premiere-murder-he-wrote-stopwatch-f-maddie-ellerby

and the new flava d:

https://soundcloud.com/i-d-online-1/premiere-flava-d-wheels

the cerrone/todd edwards fits with the afro thing too.

wonder if anything of note will surface with the rks remastered series roska is doing.

kyla, at least <3

http://www.thefader.com/2016/04/14/kyla-interview

(she's married to paleface!!)

ahh i'm so glad this was done! it was immediately p much the only thread i wanted pulled

i m/l still subscribe to what i was saying here Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly (2015) about the pseudo-honesty of theft vs the reflected self-flattery of cosmopolitan patronage ("Drake would be really happy to help you boost your career") but the human side of it does win out nevertheless i guess

re the track though, i was amazed (eh well relatively) just how useless the cdq ended up compared to the clip. prosaic, vibeless, soporific

sorta cute i suppose how for all the global v/pillage hype we are here presented this perfunctory logistic reality instead, intercontinental commerce containerized on a large rusting cargo ship slowly glugging along its trade route spilling fumes

The track seems to transcends generations and cultures">speak to different cultures and genres.

appropriate subbing mishap lolz btw

ha yeah when the rich art patrons are other artists. "this would be a really good move" ah but for whom

(striking how this is the first we've really gotten to know kyla a bit - if only the churning content machine had been around then, it'd've been so much easier to pitch a quick Q&A with one-single uk funky vocalists)

crit > human stories

And "Love Lockdown" is precisely it, totally anony-motive vocals b/c you wouldn't want it any other way.

― Tim F, Sunday, 1 August 2010 12:59 Bookmark

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03tg32s

don't talk to me or my crazy cousin ever again

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03x9nqn

couple of weeks ago i found myself waiting upon a night bus at the stop opposite the hackney empire, which has a little club or bar type thing in the corner there if yall familz. anyway as i harrumphed @ tfl in my dishevelled state i recognised a vaguely familiar sound emanating from said venue. gadzooks (i remarked internally) if it isnt the migraine skank by gracious k! and a live pa at that! shortly afterwards an unimpressive gang of revellers streamed out of the place and ran to the nearby bus stop and back again, to muted cheers. come up on stage all of you cried gracious k. i put my headphones in and pulled up citymapper once more, content to accept that funky was still dead.

jam with the usual "shout out to jack poppy olivia and gabriel in halls" beeb biz. [actual transcript, no golby]. least he got tadow horns in there i spose

All the streaming services deleted "this is classic uk funky" from their sites. RIP genre, you are now a drake meme

In all seriousness if someone has a zip for that comp I'd kill for it

hadnt seen it before

https://www.7digital.com/artist/various-artists/release/this-is-classic-uk-funky-house

this seems to be the only place where it's still listed to buy (and flacs too) but uk only i'm supposing

u might have decent luck seeking the tracks individually, esp if the ogs itt still have functional hard drives from then unlike myself

I have like 95% of that comp anyway but the mix was nice Friday evening comfort food. It's one of the few places where the Aidonia Bounce is commercially available as well and certainly the only place where it was on a streaming service.

Ugh "Funky Steps".

that comp totally passed me by too. i've got most of the tunes already but theres a few that weren't available or that i've never even heard before (or maybe just forgotten) that i might have to grab.

anyway, FNG - Night time july : this tune sounds super super familiar, did it come out under another name? i'm sure i've got it but can't find anything by FNG on the harddrive

^^ it's by fingaprint

aah yeah had a feeling it was off invasion records thanks! i had that 12" with space invasion on the flip, classic riddims both.

Looks like there is a US download for this 🙏🏻 thanks rtc

Yeah it wasn't so much that this was some kind of defining document or something as it was an easily available overview that touched on many of the important records, unlike the trash playlist introductions to uk funky or whatever

Also "do you mind" is no longer on streaming 🤔 *looks to toronto*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdRFqYopBRI

never forget (= totally forget until just now)

https://www.7digital.com/artist/ministry-of-sound/release/the-sound-of-uk-funky

this one isn't so bad in retrospect. rly it's only the keystone invasion crew (fingaprint & tadow) cuts that set the other one apart

https://www.beatport.com/track/lets-do-it-again-kenny-dope-dub/546305

by the by i was looking for something else a while ago and accidentally reacquainted myself with this utter classic, probably somewhat forgotten bit of foundational filth

Tadow's "Rising Sun" remains the archetypal "makes no sense on its own but is the best tune ever in the mix" track.

I for one never forgot and will never forget the "Find Your Love" remix.

My treasured Marcus Nasty 2008 sets are sounding particularly excellent to date. I think I've been in mourning ever since funky died .

do you still listen to (current) UK radio Tim? I haven't for a long time. always wonder if I'm missing much... to be honest what I do miss recently is dropping in here to ILM casually and seeing you and r|t|c raving about dance bangers on threads like this. after decades of underground dance and a houseful of 12"s it was a relief to slow things down. what I want now is tunes that scratch every itch!

https://beta.mixcloud.com/RadarRadioLDN/ahadadream-w-crazy-cousinz-17th-december-2016/

here be flukes, back solo under the crazy cousinz moniker with a half hour guest mix and short interview at 45mins in which he reflects on his "captivating year" having pound notes pouring from every pocket enjoying the patronage of a nice group of teenagers that are currently proudly purveying a super ultra new global bass type post-funky zzz (you may have seen it around being enticingly referred to as 130bpm). (all the yuppies lex stabbed in the back in that final episode of funky house of cards revenged themselves upon him by having kids i guess). "people are taking it more seriously than the scene we had before".

the mix is not unpleasant with the old riddims to begin with but swiftly nosedives into a dog's breakfast of irrelevant semi-modern solecisms. the usual.

brother tim will now join me in donning the old ceremonial robes and gravely chanting "i'm a wise old yoot and i know what's what."

10 years' time let's see what we got.

God knows I might hate it, God knows I might not.

http://i.imgur.com/u8J3nQI.gif

^^^ otm

crying @ funky house of cards

that ahadadream set was so tedious i've decided to share the gift of xmas with some liquidated stock

https://soundcloud.com/iambru/bru-c-x-tc4-marimba-freestyle-1
https://soundcloud.com/tc4wolves/bambo
https://soundcloud.com/tc4wolves/tc4-x-moad-corona-1

these frootloopy tc4 2016 treetz should actually really be filed in the old PVC thread i guess, except the chocolate puma student whiteboy grimey bigbeat basshouse scene never reveals itself to me whenever i delve. maybe because it doesnt exist!!! oh well enjoy

https://soundcloud.com/rinsefm/marcusnasty211216

OI.

actually everything after vapour arrives at 50mins is a towering garbage inferno, don't even bother. but that first half!!!

^^^^^

This is tremendous.

I don't even recognise most of the tracks from about 23 minutes (other than the obvious like "Rass Out" and "Seasons").

grateful not to have been commuting when 'crackish' crept in. woulda done a madness.

i love the whole bit where coldsteps is like 'alright let me give them a conscious one' and you just hear shants in the background going YES. YES. YES. YES.

also funny cos coldsteps has only ever had one conscious one and it is his horrible apocalyptic "bodies burning ending up in bins" piece. which still sounded fucking incredible because somehow, impossibly, only marcus-ly, warm queasy synth pads suddenly bloomed from the tune out of nowhere at the very exact moment he says "take a look things just got worse", just like a poisoned 4hero 'loveless'. incredible scenes

Sad to think that some people don't get that this music is the nicest vibes of all time.

I tried to write "biggest vibes" but my phone changed it to "nicest vibes", my phone otm tbh.

jam with the usual "shout out to jack poppy olivia and gabriel in halls" beeb biz. [actual transcript, no golby]. least he got tadow horns in there i spose

― r|t|c, Thursday, 9 June 2016 01:38 Bookmark

https://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/article/exclusive-mistajam-response-independent-drake-top-boy-working-class-culture
https://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/article/exclusive-mistajam-response-independent-drake-top-boy-working-class-culture
https://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/article/exclusive-mistajam-response-independent-drake-top-boy-working-class-culture

EEDIAT

Just to let you all know about my new mixcloud where I'm uploading all the classic era uk funky sets I can find, 60 sets so far.

https://www.mixcloud.com/Classic_UK_Funky_Sets/

You'll find most of the sets that got raved about and discussed in this thread - Marcus Nasty 2008> on Deja/Rinse, formative 2007 sets from Supa D, Taffa, Kismet, Hardhouse Banton & Dubplate Wonder, funkystepz, Ill Blu, loads of my own recordings of live FM from Petchy, Devine Recordings and whatever else I could gather together.

I've already gone a bit mad on this and don't have much more to upload but I'd like to keep it going, so if any of you lot have got classic material that I haven't got, please share and I'll upload it.

OMG Benny.

I lost so many of my favourite funky sets when my computer died last year, this is a godsend.